Well, your "holographic" keyboard is basically a reality right now. Canesta has developed the hardware to project a keyboard on a flat surface and detect when you press down on each key. It is compact enough to be built into existing PDAs. I really wish someone would put out a PC based handheld or PDA with that technology built in!
Nope, he means METER. The concept would be that human beings would get rid of their bodies and become fully simulated. They would only exist as living "programs" in a vast virtual reality contained in the RAM of a post-singularity computer system.
Not necessarily the most popular view of what could happen after the singularity, but theoretically possible. See the writings of Ray Kurzweil for some more information.
Honestly, we know better than that. Windows does not fail that often in the hands of competent people. I have two laptops that get daily heavy use by me (one with 2000, the other with XP) and they do NOT crash. I probably reboot them once or twice a month, I prefer to put them in standby or hibernate when not in use.
The problem is id10t users/businesses who don't install patches/upgrades, insist on using Outlook and Internet Explorer, opening every attachment they receive, browsing questionable web sites, and even purposefully installing spyware shit toolbars and whatnot so they can have a little animated buddy or see what the weather is (look out a window for god's sake!)...
Growth of the R&D sector in China is so rapid that 'within five years China could overtake Britain, Germany and Japan as a base for corporate research, leaving it second only to the United States.'
Great, and within 10 years they'll probably surpass the USA. That is the direction everything's heading- outsourcing the skilled, high tech, and R&D work is going to hollow out the US economy until it collapses in on itself like a neutron star...
I'm not sure I buy that argument. If you take your example and add 5 more states to it: Ohio, Michigan, Georgia, New Jersey, and North Carolina you can make the same statement about the electoral college. OK, presidential candidate X makes outlandish claims to 11 states (no taxes, free beer, etc) to get their vote. He can win the election with 271 votes from the electoral college (The total value of the states you mention plus mine). Not very fair to the other 39 states is it?
I know we're both guilty of simplifying things, but I still feel change is needed.
Ok, how hard can it really be to just do away with the whole electoral college thing? Just let each individual vote count. Say a few buddies and I go out and vote for Kerry but we're in a state that heavily backs Bush. Our votes are basically thrown away in a sea of Bush supporters, because the electoral college votes will go to Bush.
If the so called "popular vote" was the only thing that mattered those votes cast by my buddies and I would count for something.
Even better would be some alternative voting systems. With one of these systems in place you could rank your preference of candidates, or place multiple votes. Your vote for Ross Perot, Ralph Nader or Candidate X would not be "thrown away" as they say, for example you could vote for both Kerry and Nader if you wished.
Yes that is a big problem. My wife's oldest son (from a previous marriage) came home after school this week and complained that it was soooo booooring. When asked why we found it was because they are re-hashing the same stuff over and over for the idiots out there. There's no challenge at all for kids who could benefit from it.
I think I must have lucked out when I was a child. I had a computer programming class back in the mid 80s. I'd already taught myself a lot prior to that. The teacher was able to see that when he'd assign a task for the week and I'd be done in 10 minutes. Instead of forcing me to continue doing the same classwork / homework as everyone else, he would "challenge" me to create programs to do various things like evaluate expressions typed in as strings, and so on. By the end of that year I had created an entire graphical "paint" style application with mouse control, and drop down menus that ran in DOS from 5.25 floppies. Nothing like it was available at the time for IBM computers, I had to use interrupts to get data from the mouse!
Now that this post has drifted off topic, I'll close with a thank you to Mr. Roberts for giving me that time to explore and grow instead of being beat down to the lowest common denominator level. It meant more to me than you'll ever know.
Boy oh boy, look at what my misinterpreted words started here! To clear things up:
I recommended that a person following my post should buy an ITPS at the same time as their M100. You could have come up with other methods to supply clean regulated power to the M100, but this one snaps right into the M100, and provides the additional benefit of using accessory power as a trigger to power the M100 on or off. The way to get accessory power to turn on is to turn the key in the ignition switch. This is what I meant by "an ITPS for ignition control", I thought it would be a simpler way to put it for the automotive laypeople on slashdot. I did not expect that anyone would interpret it differently, let alone argue about it. Sorry for the confusion it caused.
Yes, you can buy a GPS unit that can plug into a USB port. The newer models out are powered directly from the USB port.
As for how to extract the data from a USB GPS unit, that will depend on the vendor. I personally only know how to extract data via a serial port. I would recommend you try the Earthmate GPS from DeLorme. You can download an update to their software online that will emulate a COM port. Then you can just use VB to query the GPS. Use the NMEA 0183 V2.0 standard, here is a FAQ to get you started.
I think the big question here is Did you even look at the ITPS??
From the Link I provided: The ITPS performs several timing routines and takes actions as follows:
1) Ignition=OFF. Nothing happens.
2) Ignition=ON. ITPS waits for 3-4 seconds then turns on the main 12V rail. This provides enough time for battery levels to reach a stable output. After another 1 second the MCU sends an "ON" signal to the motherboard via the 2 wires connected to the motherboard's ON/OFF pins. The motherboard will turn ON and your system should start booting.
3) Ignition=ON during driving: Nothing happens. Your computer will remain ON.
4) Ignition=OFF. IPTS waits for about 5 seconds and then it turns the motherboard OFF by sending a signal to the motherboard's ON/OFF switch. Your computer should turn off gracefully (shutdown procedure). During this time, power will still be available for your PC to perform shutdown.
5) Ignition=OFF after 5 seconds. Power will still be provided for another 45 seconds, long enough for most soft shutdown processes. In the event where the shutdown process is hanging, power will be shut down hard, turning off your computer's main power source to prevent battery drain.
6) ITPS will go to step 1, until ignition is tuned ON again.
As you can see, ignition control of your computer system. No magical wireless faries required...
You go buy an M100 with an ITPS for ignition control. Then you go download MediaEngine or another interface of your choice at MP3car.com. Finally, go buy your Lilliput 7" TFT touchscreen on eBay.
If you're into self installs and whatnot this gives you a lot more flexibility at less cost.
They're not ARMED with a harpoon, it is used in place of a tractor beam to grab and reel in objects of interest. And that is done usually while the ship is at full stop.
For that matter, why can you accept lasers/phasers on a faster than light vessel? How would they work? Could you only shoot to the sides and aft?
Reminds me of Steven Wright at a job interview: Steven: If you're travelling in a spaceship at the speed of light and you turn your lights on, would anything happen? Interviewer: I don't know. Steven:Forget it then, I don't want to work for you.
His algorithm doesn't need to. All it needs to do is check against an existing dictionary of words. If the word is not on the list, it is assumed to be misspelled. (If the good spelling of Viagra is in the dictionary, simply remove it so that any correctly spelled reference to Viagra counts as a misspelling too). If there are greater than X% misspellings in the e-mail it gets trashed. X can be a smaller percentage if the e-mail has any hyperlinks in it, because it is virtually guaranteed that someone is trying to sell you something...
I think in a more classical sense of the word "firewall" that this software would apply- it prevents spam from reaching your e-mail application entirely.
I do agree that SVMs have been used before, and I believe that Apple's Mail program uses them for spam classification. Slashdot had an article about it this spring...
What you show as an example IS a hard drive, just placed in a caddy and slotted into a container with connections and power supply. The hard drive in the caddy is the same as any other you would buy, and includes its own motor, memory buffer, and electronics.
The 64DD is a drive mechanism which you insert media into, like a floppy drive, zip disk, or CD/DVD. The media has no motor or electronics built in. So therefore, I call your example a hard drive, but the 64DD was definitely NOT a hard drive.
Well, you got me there. However, if you looked at the link I posted it explains that the 64DD used little removable media cartidges with a disk inside of them. Think something like a zip disk. You would not call a removable media based system a hard drive would you?
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No, I think the real question is- were there any badgers found nearby?
Well, your "holographic" keyboard is basically a reality right now. Canesta has developed the hardware to project a keyboard on a flat surface and detect when you press down on each key. It is compact enough to be built into existing PDAs. I really wish someone would put out a PC based handheld or PDA with that technology built in!
Data is dead you insensitive clod !
I am not dead. I may not have posted much recently, but I am very much alive.
I was tempted. But I came through in the end- If I had destroyed the Phoenix, where would you all be now?
;)
Oh, that awful crew of NX-01. Maybe I should have blown up the Phoenix after all
Nope, he means METER. The concept would be that human beings would get rid of their bodies and become fully simulated. They would only exist as living "programs" in a vast virtual reality contained in the RAM of a post-singularity computer system.
Not necessarily the most popular view of what could happen after the singularity, but theoretically possible. See the writings of Ray Kurzweil for some more information.
My brain hurts from reading that incredible run-on sentence summary. Remember boys and girls, the period is your friend. Read on for even more punctuation pointers!
It is ironic that one of the proposed structures (see the picture in TFA) is a giant city-structure in the shape of a question mark!
Honestly, we know better than that. Windows does not fail that often in the hands of competent people. I have two laptops that get daily heavy use by me (one with 2000, the other with XP) and they do NOT crash. I probably reboot them once or twice a month, I prefer to put them in standby or hibernate when not in use.
The problem is id10t users/businesses who don't install patches/upgrades, insist on using Outlook and Internet Explorer, opening every attachment they receive, browsing questionable web sites, and even purposefully installing spyware shit toolbars and whatnot so they can have a little animated buddy or see what the weather is (look out a window for god's sake!)...
Exactly. That and depending on the area of research they may be able to do things that would be considered illegal in the USA.
Growth of the R&D sector in China is so rapid that 'within five years China could overtake Britain, Germany and Japan as a base for corporate research, leaving it second only to the United States.'
Great, and within 10 years they'll probably surpass the USA. That is the direction everything's heading- outsourcing the skilled, high tech, and R&D work is going to hollow out the US economy until it collapses in on itself like a neutron star...
I'm not sure I buy that argument. If you take your example and add 5 more states to it: Ohio, Michigan, Georgia, New Jersey, and North Carolina you can make the same statement about the electoral college. OK, presidential candidate X makes outlandish claims to 11 states (no taxes, free beer, etc) to get their vote. He can win the election with 271 votes from the electoral college (The total value of the states you mention plus mine). Not very fair to the other 39 states is it?
I know we're both guilty of simplifying things, but I still feel change is needed.
Ok, how hard can it really be to just do away with the whole electoral college thing? Just let each individual vote count. Say a few buddies and I go out and vote for Kerry but we're in a state that heavily backs Bush. Our votes are basically thrown away in a sea of Bush supporters, because the electoral college votes will go to Bush.
If the so called "popular vote" was the only thing that mattered those votes cast by my buddies and I would count for something.
Even better would be some alternative voting systems. With one of these systems in place you could rank your preference of candidates, or place multiple votes. Your vote for Ross Perot, Ralph Nader or Candidate X would not be "thrown away" as they say, for example you could vote for both Kerry and Nader if you wished.
Yes that is a big problem. My wife's oldest son (from a previous marriage) came home after school this week and complained that it was soooo booooring. When asked why we found it was because they are re-hashing the same stuff over and over for the idiots out there. There's no challenge at all for kids who could benefit from it.
I think I must have lucked out when I was a child. I had a computer programming class back in the mid 80s. I'd already taught myself a lot prior to that. The teacher was able to see that when he'd assign a task for the week and I'd be done in 10 minutes. Instead of forcing me to continue doing the same classwork / homework as everyone else, he would "challenge" me to create programs to do various things like evaluate expressions typed in as strings, and so on. By the end of that year I had created an entire graphical "paint" style application with mouse control, and drop down menus that ran in DOS from 5.25 floppies. Nothing like it was available at the time for IBM computers, I had to use interrupts to get data from the mouse!
Now that this post has drifted off topic, I'll close with a thank you to Mr. Roberts for giving me that time to explore and grow instead of being beat down to the lowest common denominator level. It meant more to me than you'll ever know.
Boy oh boy, look at what my misinterpreted words started here! To clear things up:
I recommended that a person following my post should buy an ITPS at the same time as their M100. You could have come up with other methods to supply clean regulated power to the M100, but this one snaps right into the M100, and provides the additional benefit of using accessory power as a trigger to power the M100 on or off. The way to get accessory power to turn on is to turn the key in the ignition switch. This is what I meant by "an ITPS for ignition control", I thought it would be a simpler way to put it for the automotive laypeople on slashdot. I did not expect that anyone would interpret it differently, let alone argue about it. Sorry for the confusion it caused.
Yes, you can buy a GPS unit that can plug into a USB port. The newer models out are powered directly from the USB port.
As for how to extract the data from a USB GPS unit, that will depend on the vendor. I personally only know how to extract data via a serial port. I would recommend you try the Earthmate GPS from DeLorme. You can download an update to their software online that will emulate a COM port. Then you can just use VB to query the GPS. Use the NMEA 0183 V2.0 standard, here is a FAQ to get you started.
Hope that helps you!
did you even look at the ITPS??
I think the big question here is Did you even look at the ITPS??
From the Link I provided:
The ITPS performs several timing routines and takes actions as follows:
1) Ignition=OFF. Nothing happens.
2) Ignition=ON. ITPS waits for 3-4 seconds then turns on the main 12V rail. This provides enough time for battery levels to reach a stable output. After another 1 second the MCU sends an "ON" signal to the motherboard via the 2 wires connected to the motherboard's ON/OFF pins. The motherboard will turn ON and your system should start booting.
3) Ignition=ON during driving: Nothing happens. Your computer will remain ON.
4) Ignition=OFF. IPTS waits for about 5 seconds and then it turns the motherboard OFF by sending a signal to the motherboard's ON/OFF switch. Your computer should turn off gracefully (shutdown procedure). During this time, power will still be available for your PC to perform shutdown.
5) Ignition=OFF after 5 seconds. Power will still be provided for another 45 seconds, long enough for most soft shutdown processes. In the event where the shutdown process is hanging, power will be shut down hard, turning off your computer's main power source to prevent battery drain.
6) ITPS will go to step 1, until ignition is tuned ON again.
As you can see, ignition control of your computer system. No magical wireless faries required...
You go buy an M100 with an ITPS for ignition control. Then you go download MediaEngine or another interface of your choice at MP3car.com. Finally, go buy your Lilliput 7" TFT touchscreen on eBay.
If you're into self installs and whatnot this gives you a lot more flexibility at less cost.
Hey, quit stealing my lines! ;)
They're not ARMED with a harpoon, it is used in place of a tractor beam to grab and reel in objects of interest. And that is done usually while the ship is at full stop.
For that matter, why can you accept lasers/phasers on a faster than light vessel? How would they work? Could you only shoot to the sides and aft?
Reminds me of Steven Wright at a job interview:
Steven: If you're travelling in a spaceship at the speed of light and you turn your lights on, would anything happen?
Interviewer: I don't know.
Steven:Forget it then, I don't want to work for you.
Hey, I had dibs on Data! :)
Now I can finally prove my intelligence to that *$&#@& door on the Heart of Gold so it will open for me!
I'd rather go to a bar and meet chicks to spend money on.
;)
Just don't tell my wife
His algorithm doesn't need to. All it needs to do is check against an existing dictionary of words. If the word is not on the list, it is assumed to be misspelled. (If the good spelling of Viagra is in the dictionary, simply remove it so that any correctly spelled reference to Viagra counts as a misspelling too). If there are greater than X% misspellings in the e-mail it gets trashed. X can be a smaller percentage if the e-mail has any hyperlinks in it, because it is virtually guaranteed that someone is trying to sell you something...
I think in a more classical sense of the word "firewall" that this software would apply- it prevents spam from reaching your e-mail application entirely. I do agree that SVMs have been used before, and I believe that Apple's Mail program uses them for spam classification. Slashdot had an article about it this spring...
What you show as an example IS a hard drive, just placed in a caddy and slotted into a container with connections and power supply. The hard drive in the caddy is the same as any other you would buy, and includes its own motor, memory buffer, and electronics.
The 64DD is a drive mechanism which you insert media into, like a floppy drive, zip disk, or CD/DVD. The media has no motor or electronics built in. So therefore, I call your example a hard drive, but the 64DD was definitely NOT a hard drive.
Well, you got me there. However, if you looked at the link I posted it explains that the 64DD used little removable media cartidges with a disk inside of them. Think something like a zip disk. You would not call a removable media based system a hard drive would you?